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ANDREOSSY, Antoine-François, comte. Constantinople et le Bosphore de Thrace, pendant les années 1812, 1813 et 1814, et pendant l'année 1826, par M. le Comte Andreossy..., Atlas, Paris, Théophile Barrois et Benjamin Duprat, MDCCCXXVIII [=1828].
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Antoine François comte Andréossy (1761-1828) was a French military officer, diplomat and hydrographer. He trained in the military, and from 1787…
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BINOS, Abbé de. Voyage par l'Italie, en Egypte au Mont-Liban et en Palestine ou Terre Sainte, par M. l'Abbé de Binos, chanoine de la Cathédrale de Comminges, vols Ι-II, Paris, chez l'Auteur & chez Boudet, MDCCLXXXVII [=1787].
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The French clergyman Abbé de Binos (1730-1803) was a priest in his native town of St. Bernanrd de Comminges. The account of his travels to the East,…
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BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT, Jean Baptiste. Nouvel Atlas pour servir à l'histoire des Iles Ioniennes, contenant cartes, plans, vues, costumes et médailles..., Paris, Chez Dondey-Dupré et fils, MDCCCXXIII [=1823].
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Jean-Baptiste Geneviève Marcellin Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778-1846) was a French military officer, naturalist, geographer and author. He studied…
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BRINDESI, Jean. Souvenirs de Constantinople, Paris, [Imp. Lemercier, 1845].
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Little is known on the life of Italian painter Giovanni Brindesi (1826-1888). It has been established that he started his career as a watercolour…
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BROWN, Edward. A brief account of some travels in Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli..., London, T. R. for Benj. Tooke, 1673.
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Edward Browne (1644-1708) was a British physician. He studied at Cambridge and his native Norwich, where he also led an intense social life. Besides…
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BREYDENBACH, Bernhard von. Peregrinationes in Terram Sanctam, Speyer, 1502.
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The nobleman Bernard von Breydenbach (1454-1497) was probably born in Strasbourg. He qualified as Doctor of Laws and was elected to high ecclesiastic…
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View the items in BREYDENBACH, Bernhard von. Peregrinationes in Terram Sanctam, Speyer, 1502.
BARTHOLDY, Jakob Ludwig Salomo. Voyage en Grèce fait dans les années 1803 et 1804..., vol. Ι, Paris, Dentu, M.D.CCC.VII [=1807].
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Jakob Ludwig Salomon Bartholdy (1779-1825) was a Prussian diplomat of Jewish parentage who converted to Protentantism in 1805. He was born in Berlin…
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BARTHOLDY, Jakob Ludwig Salomo. Voyage en Grèce fait dans les années 1803 et 1804..., vol. ΙΙ, Paris, Dentu, M.D.CCC.VII [=1807].
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Jakob Ludwig Salomon Bartholdy (1779-1825) was a Prussian diplomat of Jewish parentage who converted to Protentantism in 1805. He was born in Berlin…
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LABORDE, Léon Emmanuel Simon Joseph. Voyage de l'Asie Mineure par Alexandre de Laborde, Becker, Hall, et L. de Laborde, rédigé et publié par Léon de Laborde, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1838.
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Simon Joseph Léon Emmanuel, Marquis de Laborde (1807-1869) was a French archaeologist and politician. At the age of twenty he accompanied his father…
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BREUNING VON BUCHENBACH, Hans Jacob. Orientalische Reyß [...] , Strasbourg, Johann Carolo, 1612.
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Hans Jacob Breüning Von Buchenbach (1552-1616) belonged to an old noble family of Tübingen and received a classical education. He met Jean Carlier…
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